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Texas Troubadours: Chuck Hawthorne, Libby Koch & Rachel Laven, MacSorleys, Glasgow, 1st August 2017

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These three Texan singer/songwriters played their third show of a lengthy UK and Ireland trip throughout August in a handsome Victorian bar in Glasgow. It was a freewheeling night with all three on stage for a […]
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Romantica “Shadowlands” (At The Helm Records, 2017)

August 15, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 0
Opening with ‘Let The Light Go Through You’ Ben Kyle’s first release for seven years in the guise of Romantica is a wash of lush arrangement and hymnal vocals where his Irish inflexions are highlighted. There […]
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Malachi Vale “Swan Song” (Maisonnette, 2017)

August 15, 2017 Scott Baxter 0
Machai Vale is the pseudonym of Marc Gagnon, a Montreal native whose previous recorded output was with alt-punk-country-swing (it says here) outfit, Pipo Fiasco. Having no idea what alt-punk-country-swing is, it was hard to know what […]
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Pete Fij/Terry Bickers “We Are Millionaires” (Broadcast Recordings, 2017)

August 14, 2017 Scott Baxter 0
Second album from ex-Creation artists who flirted with success in the late 80s and early 90s with Adorable (Fij), House of Love and Levitation (Bickers) and who, through the education of life and its attendant struggles […]
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Mount Song “Mount Song” (Suncave Recordings, 2017)

August 14, 2017 David Cowling 0
You know that hazy rock sound, the one where the songs seem to drift along on a kind of medicated meander? That’s what Mount Song do. They never push too hard the songs that aren’t suffused […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Nick Costa “Eddie”

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The artist from Minnesota is in reflective mood, providing much-needed feedback to the powers that be on how well it’s all going, whilst paying tribute to his ‘best boy’. The nine albums of Costa’s solo career […]
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Live Review: Cat Clyde, The Lower Third, London – 30th April 2026

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Declan O’Donovan “Get Thee Behind The Wheel” – embracing sin

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Declan O’Donovan notes that his song title comes from a biblical exhortation to relinquish and reject sin and join the virtuous doing hard, but good, work.  The words of the song somewhat belie the wholehearted embracing […]
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B. Knox “Far From Folk”

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Sophomore album from Canadian songsmith marks him out as a serious contender. B. Knox as he chooses to be known, is a former Canadian schoolteacher who’s loss to the education world is quite clearly Americana music’s […]
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Live Review: Wilco, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, Oklahoma – 10th & 11th December 2024

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It’s a chilly Wednesday afternoon and Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Center is playing host to a signing event.  This was the deal: RSVP in advance for free entry (no day-of tickets available), endure a security check that […]

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